In addition, WPG Resources invested $2 million into the company’s previously announced $16 million private placement transaction.

“Not only will this partnership with WPG enable us to dramatically accelerate the timeline to establish a prominent foothold in this important market, but we have found in WPG a partner who shares our objectives with respect to the upgrading of coal in the Pacific Basin region, said Ilyas Khan, executive chairman of Evergreen.

Evergreen Energy Inc. has two proven, proprietary, patented, and transformative green technologies: K-Fuel and the GreenCert suite of software and services.

K-Fuel technology improves the performance of low-rank coals, yielding higher efficiency and lowering emissions. GreenCert is a science-based, scalable family of environmental intelligence solutions that quantify process efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions from energy, industrial and agricultural sources and may be used to create verifiable emission reduction credits.

As news of the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, unfolded last week, Pia Guerra, a 46-year-old Vancouver-based artist, felt helpless. She couldn’t bring herself to go to sleep, so she began to draw.

Police who find suspected drugs during a traffic stop or an arrest usually pause to perform a simple task: They place some of the material in a vial filled with liquid. If the liquid turns a certain color, it’s supposed to confirm the presence of cocaine, heroin or other narcotics.